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750550

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Agriculture: Subsidies
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government what is their assessment of the benefits and costs to the UK of membership of the European Institute for Gender Equality.
	tabling member printed	Lord Lester of Herne Hill
	uin	HL682
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 25/07/2017 answer text <p>The European Institute of Gender Equality (EIGE) is an autonomous body of the European Union, which was established to contribute to and strengthen the promotion of gender equality. EIGE products, which include comparable data and research, have been utilised by the Government to inform evidence-based policy-making. However, there are a number of bodies, including the Council of Europe and OECD that produce similar products.</p> answering member printed Lord Nash question first answered 25/07/2017 10:08:07 answering member 4270 label Biography information for Lord Nash
	tabling member	2037 label Biography information for Lord Lester of Herne Hill

750559

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Energy Performance Certificates
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to place a cap on student loans, in order to prevent any increase in the total debt arising as a result of the interest paid being less than the interest accrued in any one year.
	tabling member printed	Lord Myners
	uin	HL691
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/08/2017 answer text <p>The student funding system removes financial barriers for anyone hoping to study and is backed by the taxpayer. A key feature of the scheme is that outstanding debt – including any interest accrued that has not been repaid by the end of the loan term – is written off after 30 years. This means that borrowers are protected if their repayments are less than the interest accruing on their accounts.</p><p> </p><p>Monthly student loan repayments are linked to income, not to interest rates or the amount borrowed. Borrowers earning less than the repayment threshold (£21,000) repay nothing at all.</p><p> </p><p>Once borrowers leave study, those earning less than £21,000 are charged an interest rate of RPI only. Post-study interest rates are variable based on income, tapering up from RPI for those earning less than £21,000 to RPI+3% for borrowers earning £41,000 and above. The system of variable interest rates based on income makes the system more progressive, as higher earners contribute more to the sustainability of the higher education system.</p><p> </p><p>We have a world class student finance system that is working well, and that has led to record numbers of disadvantaged students benefiting from higher education. As ever, we will keep the detailed features of the system under review to ensure it remains fair and effective.</p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 09/08/2017 16:14:34 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
	tabling member	3869 label Biography information for Lord Myners

750558

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Libya: Detention Centres
	house id	2
	legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
	question text	Her Majesty's Government whether they intend to take action to limit university course fees which do not represent value for money for students; and if so, on what basis they intend to determine which courses provide value for money.
	tabling member printed	Lord Myners
	uin	HL690
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 09/08/2017 answer text <p>The Government has introduced the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) assessment, to tackle concerns about value for money in Higher Education. Only providers who successfully achieve a high quality rating under the TEF will be permitted to maintain their fees in line with inflation.</p><p> </p><p>The results of the TEF assessment gives students clear information about where teaching quality is best and where students have achieved the best outcomes. This will promote student choice and encourage a stronger focus on the quality of teaching, as higher education providers will need to ensure they are giving students, their parents and the taxpayer value for money.</p><p> </p><p>Furthermore, the Office for Students, once established, has a general duty under section 2 of the Higher Education and Research Act 2017 to have regard to the need to promote value for money in the provision of Higher Education by English Higher Education providers.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member printed Baroness Sugg question first answered 09/08/2017 16:16:03 answering member 4584 label Biography information for Baroness Sugg
	tabling member	3869 label Biography information for Lord Myners

750751

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Educational Psychology
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many educational psychologists were employed in all local authorities in (a) 2016 and (b) 2017.
	tabling member constituency	Liverpool, Wavertree
	tabling member printed	Luciana Berger
	uin	4435
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2017 answer text <p>The head count of educational psychologists reported as employed by all local authorities in England in November 2016 is 1,600. This figure will undercount the actual number of educational psychologists because only 64 per cent of local authorities provided data in the latest year. Information is not yet available for 2017.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Scarborough and Whitby answering member printed Mr Robert Goodwill question first answered 24/07/2017 15:32:13 answering member 1562 label Biography information for Sir Robert Goodwill
	tabling member	4036 label Biography information for Luciana Berger

750811

	registered interest
	date	11/07/2017
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Teachers: Training
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, whether she plans to provide additional training to teachers on child protection and safeguarding.
	tabling member constituency	Rotherham
	tabling member printed	Sarah Champion
	uin	4267
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/07/2017 answer text <p>The Teachers’ Standards 2011 set out that teachers should safeguard children’s wellbeing as part of their professional duties.</p><p>All programmes of initial teacher training (ITT) must prepare teachers to demonstrate that they have met these Standards. The same Teachers’ Standards are also used to assess a newly qualified teacher's performance at the end of their induction period. <br> <br>All trainee teachers are provided with the following at the commencement of their training in each school: the child protection policy, the staff behaviour policy (sometimes called a code of conduct), information about the role of the designated safeguarding lead and a copy of Keeping Children Safe in Education (KCSIE), the Department’s statutory safeguarding guidance.</p><p>When a teacher starts work in a school, KCSIE sets out that they should receive child protection and safeguarding training at induction. This training should be regularly updated. Induction and training should be in line with advice from the Local Safeguarding Children Board.</p><p>The Department strengthened the guidance in September 2016 and it now sets out that in addition to training, teachers should receive regular safeguarding and child protection updates, as required, and at least annually.</p> answering member constituency Bognor Regis and Littlehampton answering member printed Nick Gibb question first answered 24/07/2017 17:51:41 answering member 111 label Biography information for Nick Gibb
	tabling member	4267 label Biography information for Sarah Champion